MADADAYO

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• Release Year: 1993
• Genre: Comedy; Drama; Foreign
• Plot: Considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Akira Kurosawa's touching and final film Madadayo, is the perfect ending to a lifetime of cinematic achievements.; ; The film follows the last two decades in the life of Hyakken Uchida, a writer and teacher who retires in the war years of the early 1940s. His students venerate him in his old age, and join him and his family each year for a ritual birthday party asking 'Mahda-kai? (Are you ready?)' to which Uchida downs a big glass of beer and answers 'Madadayo! (Not Yet!),' acknowledging that death may be near, but life still goes on.
• Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura; Hisashi Igawa; George Tokoro; Masayuki Yui; Akira Terao; Takeshi Kusaka; Asei Kobayashi; Kyôko Kagawa; Mitsuru Hirata; Takao Zushi; Nobuto Okamoto; Kimihiro Reizei; Shû Nakajima; Ryûjirô Oki; Bin Sasaki; Yukimasa Natori; Shin'ya Sakaguchi; Raishin Kodama; Saburô Tôyama; Sumimaro Yochimi; Jun'ichi Kubozono; Tetsuo Yamashita; Kinzô Sakura; Hidetaka Yoshioka; Mie Suzuki; Yoshitaka Zushi; Tomoyuki Dan; Noriko Honma; Shigeo Katô; Hiroshi Kuze; Eiji Masuda; Utaroku Miyakoya; Akira Kurosawa; Ishirô Honda; Hyakken Uchida; Gohei Kogure; Hisao Kurosawa; Yasuyoshi Tokuma; Hiroshi Yamamoto; Takao Saitô; Shôji Ueda; Shinichirô Ikebe; Yoshirô Muraki
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Runtime: 2:14
• Company: Daiei Studios (Daiei Film Co., Ltd.; Daiei Eiga), Dentsu Inc., Kurosawa Production Inc., WinStar Cinema, Fox Lorber, WinStar TV & Video
• Media Format: Movie